maxh2006

I would encourage anyone considering flying with Ryanair to read through the wikipedia entry on Ryanair criticisms and complaints here => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair#Criticisms_and_complaints ... there appears to be no such entry on easyJet's page...

From http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/facts-figures/election-results/election-results-2006/beighton : Name: BRANDRAM Andrew Julian Party: Green Party Votes:255 Name: CLAYTON Shirley Diane Party: Conservative Candidate Votes:745 Name: JAMES Roy Anthony Party: British National Party Votes:659 Name: MIRFIN-BOUKOURIS Helen Jane Billie Party: The Labour Party Candidate Votes:1655 Name: WISBEY Allan Thomas Party: Liberal Democrat Votes:564 Turnout:30%

If you google for "Olonex" the very first hit accuses them of being a scam designed to nab stuff they then sell at car boot sales. This is effectively robbing poor people from the third world. Is no-one safe from being ripped off?

I think it's very relevant to the thread as it has a direct bearing on where one can, and cannot, adopt kittens! Maybe a new thread would be appropriate but I think I have every right to comment on Shelter policy in public. Since I've made all the points I wanted to make I'll leave that decision for others, and I reiterate that SCS has my support in terms of its broad goals if not some of its specific policies.

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I have to say, I would've considered voting Lib Dem. But the literature they've put through our door has put me right off. For a start they managed to use the name of their candidate a massively-excessive eleven times on one side of A3 paper. This suggests to me that said candidate, who after all is something of a non-entity and is hardly at the top of British politics, has an ego larger than her constituency! If i were to MAXH2006 put my name in large letters MAXH2006 all over my posts MAXH2006 it would become annoying very MAXH2006 quickly!! :-D

I appreciate what you say, Medusa, but even so I think some of it is unarguable: 1) your banned roads list isn't well-publicised or on your website, I believe. This causes avoidable disappointment and to be honest is my primary gripe with SCS. You can't defend this - it would not be difficult to arrange and would surely save a lot of heartache. You could post the list to this thread, it would be a step forward over where you are currently. Then people would know how you guys felt about them adopting when they live on a busy road, and wouldn't need to waste your valuable time trying to care for animals you don't want them to have! 2) the RSPCA - just for instance - disagrees with your views on busy roads; they have no such list. That doesn't mean they're right and you're wrong, but it is still a fact that there is disagreement among the professionals, never mind the rest of us. It suggests that you might, or might not, have drawn the line in the right place. I respectfully tend to agree with the RSPCA on this one (you'd never have guessed, would you!). 3) if "most" of the cats living wild are feral, then I guess I was speaking about the rest of them! I'm sure you have more non-feral cats than spaces available - or am I wrong about this? Are you the world's only over-funded animal welfare organisation? * I'm sure that can't be the case :-D Ultimately it still seems a shame to me that you won't place a cat with people who live on a busy road because you "believe that animal is at an unacceptable risk of suffering harm", when other welfare organisations would disagree. It seems a greater shame that you don't publicise this policy more widely. :edit: "world's only over-funded animal welfare organisation" - I forgot about the Battersea Dogs' Home!

I've no doubt whatsoever that the Sheffield Cats Shelter is a fine and great organisation. But they wouldn't let me adopt a cat because I live on a main road (Chesterfield Road, as it happens) - it's on their list of roads that are too busy to allow adoptions. This was a couple of years ago but I assume the policy is still the same? It always seemed a bit odd to me because for every cat taking up a space in their shelter, there's a dozen cats living wild. I would've thought it was better to send a cat to a loving home and let it take its chances with the roads, and get another cat into the shelter that's already taking its chances with the road but doesn't even have a loving home. Thankfully the RSPCA take a different line. So if you live on a busy road I'd suggest contacting the shelter first to see if you're on the banned-roads list. It would be helpful if the list was on their website - I don't think it is but since the website is down at the moment I can't check. Disclaimer - I support anyone and anything that helps find cats loving homes, even if they do discriminate against the traffic-impaired...!